Empowerment

Damyanti Gupta, the first female engineer hired by Ford, migrated to Mumbai from Pakistan during the Partition. Here's her inspiring story.

Golden Heart Foundation in Pune came into being because of seven friends who started two community kitchens and skill development centres to help marginalised women.

People come from all over to India to marvel at the handcrafted bamboo products of Thrikkaipetta village in Kerala, which is now on the global eco-tourism map thanks to Uravu Indigenous Science and Technology Study Centre

When Indian-origin Anjali Sud became the CEO of Vimeo, she knew that her mission was to make the video service stand out in a crowd of iconic competitors like YouTube and Netflix. And she achieved her goal in style, becoming a business legend in the process.

Meet Sridhar Vembu — billionaire, tech entrepreneur, and Padma Shri awardee. In his interview with The Better India, he shares why he moved operations of his software development company, Zoho, to rural India

Masala Tokri is a labour of love started by Urmila and Aarti Samant from Mumbai in 2018. Some of their spice mixes like Malvani Chicken masala and Awadhi biryani are straight from the heartland of India.

The women of the Mising community of Pathorichuk village in Assam are thrilled to be earning from their handloom weaving, and its all thanks to Rishi Raj Sarmah and Pabitra Lama Sarmah for setting up a thread initiative — Xuta.

This year, many street vendors are trying to build a livelihood while earning just Rs 300-400 a day, at a time when COVID-19 has further worsened their chances of recuperating from losses.

Mimansa Shekhar from Bihar shares how her parents broke the rules of Gurhathi, a patriarchal wedding ritual that is traditionally performed by the groom’s elder brother or any male family member, but never by a woman — not until this wedding.

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